Tuesday, 19 May 2015

I spent the weekend across the water, in a beautiful part of the world!

Lincolnshire - View from my bedroom window!

A few of us Brit Bees got together to remember our beloved Terri ...

Terri's Brit Bee quilts which we are finishing for her girls.

... pass on 'special birthday' gifts ...

... and eat loads and laugh even more!

Our very own Ceri is running 10k for Cancer Research soon, in a patchwork dress no less, made up from donated quilt blocks! If you would like to make a donation to this amazing organisation, you can do so here: https://www.justgiving.com/ceristokoe/

Thank you my lovelies for the happy memories!

And my weekend was made complete with a stop off in Derby to collect uni-daughter and whisk her back home for the summer! Yey!

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

I finished a Disappearing 9 Patch quilt over the bank holiday weekend, but have been holding off showing you until today!

Many of the fabrics in this quilt were donated by a friend from Southern Ireland (thank you Kerry). As some of the scraps were already 4.5" squares, I started from there, threw in a few more of my scraps & some Kona Silver and made lots and lots of D9P units!

Instead of sewing the D9P units back into blocks, I laid them all out on my design wall, shifted them around until I was happy with the distribution of colours and prints, and then sewed them together in rows!

The back was pieced from stash and the quilting is a simple free motion 'figure of 8'. There was only ever going to be one binding on this one (my fav!).

All that was left to do was wash, dry, affix label and post! Tick, tick, tick, tick!

The current tally for making 100 quilts for Siblings Together this year is currently at 60. There are still more being worked on, but we need 100 quilts completed by June, ready for the summer camps starting in July.

So if you could spare the time to make a quilt, blocks or donate fabric/wadding/binding I know there will be a camp full of reunited siblings this year delighted to receive your blessings!

Sunday, 10 May 2015

I finally got my mitts on my long awaited (if slightly battered) copy of Farm Girl Vintage by Lori Holt, so that I can start sewing blocks each week, along with many others all over the world!

Completing the first 3 blocks in the book brings me back up to speed with the sewing schedule! Phew!

Apron Strings

Autumn Star

Baby Chick

I had originally chosen a set of Denyse Schmidt Chicopee prints, teamed with Riley Blake pindots for the backgrounds.

But as I started sewing I just couldn't resist the urge to throw in a few other designer prints too! What can I say - I'm being true to my scrappy heart!

If you haven't already got hold of this book, I highly recommend it, even for individual block patterns. There are clearly laid out instructions for 2 sizes for each block (6" and 12" finished) and ideas and variations on how to use some of the blocks as quilts in their own right.

I have always wanted to make a medallion quilt (among 100 others too!) and the blocks in this book have given me the perfect inspiration & idea!

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